Elon Musk advises people to ditch Facebook and use Signal

Found on Digital Trends on Tuesday, 12 January 2021
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The tweets seem to have been prompted by a recent change to Facebook’s privacy policy. As reported by The Hacker News, the new updates allow more sharing of data between Facebook and its partner company WhatsApp, including the sharing of phone numbers, interactions on the platform, information about mobile devices used to access the service, and IP addresses. If WhatsApp users do not agree to the data sharing, their accounts are disabled.

Disabling the WhatsApp accounts is the best users can hope for.